Which "classical dialects" have you found particularly interesting? I've always found the Ionic of Herodotus sort of intriguing with that abundance of etas everywhere and I've had fun with the Aeolic of Sappho and the Sicilian Doric of Theocritus. There was a professor of University of Texas who wrote a beginning textbook for classical Greek that started out with Ionic dialect and gradually worked into Attic the second semester.

cwconrad wrote:Which "classical dialects" have you found particularly interesting? I've always found the Ionic of Herodotus sort of intriguing with that abundance of etas everywhere and I've had fun with the Aeolic of Sappho and the Sicilian Doric of Theocritus. There was a professor of University of Texas who wrote a beginning textbook for classical Greek that started out with Ionic dialect and gradually worked into Attic the second semester.

Attic for Plato, the orators, tragic and lyric poetry, Ionic with Herodotus and Aeolic for Sappho. I've barely had anything to do with Doric. Sappho was actually the reason why I wanted to learn Greek in the first place. After reading Catullus' translation of her poem 51 (I did Latin in high school), I decided right then and there to learn Greek.

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